It’s fair to say the real war against media bias has begun. A conservative leadership summit to confront media bias is meeting in Washington, D.C. this week to formulate strategy for a nationwide battle against mainstream media bias.
The invitation to the summit, sent out by Don Irvine, chairman of Accuracy in Media, a leading media watchdog (
Not a very good watchdog), explained the summit this way:
“We all know the role a biased, leftist media played in selecting Barack Obama, who was largely a media creation. In the last election, the media’s support was worth hundreds of millions of dollars and legions of campaign workers. It seems with each election cycle, the media becomes more biased and more brazen. If we don’t act now, 2010 and 2012 will be disastrous repeats of 2008.
“The purpose of this summit is to formulate a joint plan of action to confront and combat media bias that much of the conservative movement’s leadership can endorse and participate in…
“Instead of doing the same things we’ve been doing for years, we hope to strike off in new directions, develop new techniques and try new approaches — and do so as a coalition, rather than separate organizations, with each focusing on its own concerns.”
The invitations to the event came from the invitation committee of the “Conservative Leadership Summit to Confront Media Bias.” The committee is made up by a high-powered group of nationally known figures that include Mr. Irvine, mentioned above; Gary Bauer, American Values; Bill Donohue, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights; Wendy Wright, Concerned Women for America; Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum; Morton Blackwell, The Leadership Institute; Brent Bozell, Media Research Center; and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas). (What? No Joe the Plumber?)
The invitation-only event will bring together 50 leaders in the battle against media bias. I’m honored to have been selected to attend. In preparation for that summit, I’ve put together some suggestions on what has to be done to fight media bias. Here are a few of those suggestions:
(If you want to see the insanity of someone who believes that there is liberal bias in the media, please continue reading.)
Media Bias Can Literally Destroy The U.S.
The best example of that is the mainstream media selling an untested, unvetted, inexperienced candidate for the presidency with wild radical ideas and a parade of associates that include terrorists, bigots, racists, and even a crook (since convicted). If the public had the full story, President Barack Obama probably would not have been elected.
(Wait a second... Did the media focus on Bush's ties to criminals (Such as Elliott Abrams and John Poindexter)? Did the media focus on McCain's ties to a terrorist (G. Gordon Liddy)? No? OK, then.)
The Importance Of The Alternative Media
In the age of the Internet, everyone has free access to almost all of the newspapers of the world including such conservative standards as the Washington Times and the Washington Examiner. I’d also include Investor’s Business Daily, which I think has the best editorial and op-ed page s in the country. Of course, there’s the Wall Street Journal, which charges for complete access, but has some free access. It is one of the best conservative papers in the country. There are a few other strong conservative newspapers including The Philadelphia Bulletin and The New York Post.
When it comes to the broadcast media, there are the conservative talk show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Laura Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt, Michael Savage, Bill Bennett and many others.
On television, there’s the Fox Cable News Network.
The leading conservative magazines are The National Review, Weekly Standard, Town Hall and NewsMax, among others.
(Hold up, you talk about bias in the media... and then you select forms of media that, you admit BTW, have a conservative bias?)
Growing More Media Boycotts
One of the best ways to let the mainstream media know that their biased journalism will not payoff is to boycott them. Accuracy in Media has taken a major step in the boycott battle with its campaign to boycott The New York Times and the campaign’s Web site, www.
boycottnyt.com. I’d suggest that some organization set up a prototype of that site that can be used by other groups to boycott any media outlet they want to target.
Similar boycotts should be launched against all the leading mainstream media outlets such as The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, PBS, Time, and Newsweek for starters. Another approach would be to establish a national boycott site, with sections on each of the major outlets. It goes without saying that this is the perfect time for boycotts, as so many of the mainstream media are in financial stress. The boycotts should also be directed at advertisers, and that may be a more potent device with the mobilization of a national boycott. Some newspapers are already in bankruptcy such as The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others may be close to it ... hopefully The New York Times.
(Interesting that the successful boycott of the Sinclair Broadcast Group gets no mention.)
Bringing Together All Victims Of Media Bias
Among such groups are Republican Party organizations, conservative groups, veterans’ and other military organizations, the National Rifle Association, various groups that fight the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic bias of the mainstream media, law enforcement organizations, and many other.
(Didn't Valerie Plame get outed in the end by a media figure? Where are the 28 million Iraqis on this list? The media just stood by and cheered Bush into war.)
And it goes on and on.
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